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17 Sep 2011

Lenovo IdeaPad U300S Ultrabook Features and Review

After such a long wait for the slimmest laptop, finally Lenovo has unveiled the super slim laptop under the Ideapad brand. The latest ultra slim laptop of Lenovo is named as Lenovo IdeaPad U300S Ultrabook. Recently as per the news, this laptop has passed through the FCC test guidelines and is all set to be launched in October 2011, with 2 colour choices that is graphite gray and Clementine orange. Well let’s have quick look on its specifications, features and review of the product side by side.

Lenovo IdeaPad U300S Ultrabook
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Well as stated by Lenovo on its official website, Lenovo Ideapad U300S Ultrabook is the highly thin and light as compared to Mac Book’s Air. The thickness of this laptop is around 0.6 inch. Well this doesn’t mean that IdeaPad U300S is weak in performance, as claimed by the company, IdeaPad is designed to work with maximum powerful performance. The outer hardware of the laptop is highly smooth with aluminium body with weight around 2.2 Pounds. This laptop is having 13.3 inch display screen with 16:9 ratio.

Talking about the hardware components, this laptop is equipped with all kinds or ports ranging from USB 3.0 to HDMI. One of the most appealing feature of this laptop is that Lenovo engineers have provided this laptop with a large ventilation grille which makes it work with Intel’s Advanced Cooling Technology. This laptop has the ability to cold boot up in 10 seconds. Moreover, this laptop can work for 8 hours on battery and can charge about 50% within just 30 minutes.

Lenovo IdeaPad U300S comes with Intel Core i7 processor with Intel’s advanced hyper threading technology which means excellent performance is guaranteed. It is provided with a memory of 4 GB DDR3 RAM which can be considered optimum as per today’s computing scenario but the storage is quite lesser which is up to 256 GB SSD which is sole reason on how Lenovo has achieved such a thinnest laptop.

Lastly talking about the price, this laptop is supposed to be priced at $1195, which is quite obvious looking at its smarter cooling technology, i7 processor and most importantly its thinner and lighter body.